aficionado
French, noun/a.fi.sjɔ.na.do/
aficionado is spelled A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aficionado is a French masculine noun meaning “aficionado (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amateur de corrida”.
What does aficionado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaficionado (all senses)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Amateur de corrida. 2. Personne passionnée de quelque chose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aficionado
- aficionados plural
- afficionado alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aficionado?
- /a.fi.sjɔ.na.do/
- \a.fi.sjɔ.na.do\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aficionado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aficionado in French?
aficionado appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).